Hou Mingfeng, president of the Affiliated Hospital of Higher Medical College, said that higher medical colleges are fully committed to developing cutting-edge transplant technologies, including arm and face transplants that have passed human trials. In addition, a team of uterus transplantation and lower limb transplantation has been established, and relevant academic research and experiments will be carried out, hoping to drive the domestic transplantation trend and level, save more precious lives and give patients a better quality of life.
Guo leads an interdisciplinary team. Under the leadership of Professor Guo, the director of surgery, the team consists of more than 30 elites in plastic surgery, psychiatry, oral surgery, rehabilitation, infection, anesthesia and nephrology. He has completed many animal surgery drills, introduced fresh animals from abroad, conducted physical drills in the general simulation test center of Hualien Tzu Chi, and introduced advanced 3D images to simulate surgery, thus accumulating practical experience.
Guo, who completed the first arm transplant in Asia on 20 14 and the second arm transplant in Taiwan Province province on 20 16, said that since the implementation of the world's first face-changing operation in 2005, more than 30 successful cases have been completed in the world, with a survival rate of about 85%. After the approval of human trials, the first year of high school will recruit volunteer clinical experimenters to allow disfigured people to undergo facial transplantation.
Guo, who is seeking clinical volunteers, said that all patients with face-changing are eligible, and their age is limited to 20-55 years old, regardless of gender. They are born with facial deformities, or facial tissue defects caused by severe trauma, burns or vascular diseases, or they still have aesthetic and functional problems after microsurgery or other reconstruction operations of autologous skin flaps fail. They were diagnosed as difficult to rebuild and have been evaluated and approved by two psychiatrists. They are not seriously infected with hepatitis B, hepatitis C or AIDS.
Guo said that the facial transplant operation is to cut the knife from the hairline along the front ear or the back ear to the neck to maintain the visual effect, and almost no scars can be seen from the front. Cut off the skin, nerves, blood vessels and fat on the donor's face and sew it on the patient's face in the same way. Not only should their blood types match, but their facial bones and structures should also be the same. More importantly, it is necessary to closely observe whether patients have physical rejection after new face transplantation.
Facial transplantation is a new opportunity for disfigured people. Li Shuxin, one of the top medical teams and director of plastic surgery, said that face transplantation is a new opportunity for disfigured people, but if successful, it can make patients' appearance almost normal and improve their quality of life. As for changing your face, it is equivalent to changing a person. Can patients and close relatives and friends accept it? It is necessary to make psychological evaluation before operation.
Lin, a psychiatrist at the Geriatric Medical College, said that it is very important to evaluate the psychological level and social acceptance of face transplant patients before operation. It may take several years for patients to accept new facial changes, and senior medical schools will conduct strict evaluation.